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Impunity and Machismo: Femicide Epidemic in Mexico
On the night of Thursday September 8, 19-year-old political science student Mara Fernanda Castillo went out…
Law and Justice and Hate Crime: Will the UN Change…
On September 22nd 2017, the Human Rights Council at the UN Headquarters in Geneva adopted Universal Periodic Review…
Will Venezuela Bite on Bitcoin?
According to the United States Federal Reserve, the ideal inflation rate in a given year is 2%. However,…
Japan’s Decades-Long Dominant Party Gets a…
On September 17, Japanese media outlets buzzed with speculation that Prime Minister Shinzō Abe was preparing to…
Conflicting Interests: A Power Vacuum Remains in Libya
After a 42-year reign of mostly iron-fisted dictatorship, many Libyans hoped that Muammar Gaddafi’s capture…
THЭ VЭRΔICT
From the moment of their inception, laws stretch out into every street and crevice of a country and cast their…
The Rise of the AfD: The Far-Right Enters the Bundestag
Last week, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right nationalist party to enter the Bundestag…
Under the Weather: Caribbean charts a path beyond Irma…
Every hurricane season, the crystal blue waters that attract swaths of tourists to the Caribbean turn against the…
In Light of the Pence-Kobach Commission, the Voting…
In the past few years, the discourse surrounding voting reform in the United States has become increasingly…
Protesting the Powerful: Art & Resistance in Turkey
Turkey’s history is no stranger to public clashes between the government and its people over…
The 19th Communist Party Congress: A Test for Xi Jinping
In mid-October, about 2,300 delegates will gather in Beijing for the 19th Party Congress. Held every 5 years, the…
Winds of Change: Angola’s Political Zeitgeist
Perhaps no country better exemplifies the resource curse than Angola: although the country has vast natural wealth…